So I haven't really talked about my struggle getting a membership at the gym here in town, but I've been leaving messages for the last week and no one has been getting back to me. Finally I messaged a friend of mine via facebook that is a member there and asked for her advice. She got ahold of the staff for me and I finally was able to get an appointment to sign up for a membership last night with the staff trainer. I was there early and one of the other members let me in. We sat around for 15 minutes or so before the trainer came out of the windowed office and was apparently surprised to see us. I was not given a tour or given any options about memberships, etc. I don't know about any additional services that are available or how any of that works even after explaining to her that I didn't know anything about the club. So I signed up for $36/month with no contract (which is great!) and left with a key card to get me in this morning. She told me the other staff member would activate my card THAT NIGHT and I confirmed with her TWICE that it would work when I came in the morning to utilize the gym.
Fast forward to this morning....All dressed in my workout gear, kids up and off to daycare at their normal time, iPhone prepped and in the sleeve so I could wear it, water bottle, sweat towel, and healthy carb packed smoothie in hand and I get to the door and my key card doesn't work. Frustrated I text the gal I've been working with to schedule an appointment even though they advertise "staffed" hours until 8pm. and she says she's not sure why it's not working and says "sorry". I nearly came unglued as I calmly expressed my frustration with my entire experience. Apparently she wants to "start over" and get me in to the club AGAIN to meet with HER on Wednesday, I agreed, but this is the LAST chance they are going to have to recover from this irritating experience I've had. ANYWAY....rather than going home and sulking I drove home, dumped all my stuff upstairs and worked the C25K app (Cough to 5K). It was a good workout and I'm happy I did it. It's only supposed to be 3 days a week and a half hour workout each day, but I think I"m going to alternate that with some yoga and weight training.
So along my run I go past the schools and lots of traffic dropping kids off etc and I know I am more confident than some people my same size, but these old fears creeped up on me....there was a particular group of boys led by the biggest a-hole of pack leaders and they were down right MEAN. As I walked past them in the halls of the high school they would make elephant or pig noises and laugh about how they could feel the ground shaking or that there was an earthquake in Minnesota and then "oh it was just Rebecca walking by" and gagging noises, etc. So, as I'm running past the school and past kids walking to school all of those old fears came flooding back to me and I nearly broke down in tears. I had NO idea that kind of thing would ever affect me again, but apparently I'm a little more sensitive to that stuff than I thought it was. Every kid I passed clearly was a better person than the boys I went to school with and if they weren't they atleast didn't say it within ear shot of me, so every middle school or older kid I passed and every car that passed that I saw pulling in to the high school I had this huge anxiety about. Now if I was really still 16 years old I would avoid that route or time of day like the plague, but I'm a grown woman and I refuse to let anyone's opinion about my body change MY life or MY routine or MY workout, so I will continue on with my life and would guess that the anxiety about the route, or the kids, or whatever will subside.
Anywho....proud that I ran and that I'm properly fueling my body for a full month now (again) and I'm starting to feel unstoppable, which is an AWESOME feeling!
I get back on the scaled in 4 days and can't wait to see 30 days of results!
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